Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2025 and Copenhagen 2026, Oliver Owen pulled 2:44 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:09 quicker, so 6:53 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Birmingham 2025 → Manchester 2026: 2:52 in 91 days.
How this is worked out ⓘ
A finish time moves for two reasons: the athlete, and the race — its course, its floor, its day. For each pair of races in a row in one category, we take everyone who raced both and use the middle of how much they moved (the median) as "the race". Whatever is left is the athlete. Doubles are compared only when the same two people raced both, and told as the pair's; relays are left out. A pair with fewer than 15 athletes in common is not shown.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
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Copenhagen13 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:16:23 PB207/900Beat 77%
↑ 51 days after Manchester 2026 0:08 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:58 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:06 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →3:06 faster This athlete2:58 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:19:21197/529Beat 63%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025 2:52 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:52 better than the field: 3:55 faster on the clock, against 1:03 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete3:55 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:23:16840/1821Beat 54%